Manual Translators Please Subscribe to this Issue

[baconpaul]

Hi!

First, thanks for kindly translating the manual. If you are a manual translator please subscribe to this GitHub issue and we will use it (plus the #documentation channel in discord) to notify folks if there are big changes or so on.

Best practices for a manual translation are

1. Please call it Surge-XX.md where XX is the standard 2 letter code for your language (DE, FR, JP, etc...)
2. Please make the permalink manual-XX
3. If possible, put near the top of your manual that "this manual was translated as of ..." - but we are still working on that
4. Please ask on this issue and we will link to the translated manual from the top of the english manual

In SurgeXT we may be able to internationalize more fully - things like link to a german manual from the menu if your computer has a german language region. If so we may occasionally hit up this issue for some testing or changes there too.

And finally, thanks for working to translate the manual!

Pre-tagging @mkruselj @VincyZed @mynameismuhl

[ghost]

In addition to what Paul wrote above, here are some things i learned to be helpful for myself. Maybe some of it is also helpful for others:

• By all means, use a translate program/web translator for your first draft to make starting less painful, but remember: humans write words wrong, bots write wrong words.
• For tech terms you don't know an appropriate translation for, looking for it in English Wikipedia and then toggle the language can sometimes give a better result, since these articles are not auto-translated.
• Make decisions what not to translate early in the process.
• Making sure to keep the same line numbering as the original speeds up later changes a lot.

[ManabuMiwa]

Hi all!

I'm working on Japanese translation. I guess it will take for a while because size of the contents is huge though, I'll make a PR when I'm ready.

Please point out if I'm doing something wrong.

Edit: Fix a broken link (Mar 18, 2023) Sorry for delaying my work.

@mthierman Thanks for streamlining TOC/dropdown code!❤️

[baconpaul]

Oh that's super cool!

[VincyZed]

@ManabuMiwa Awesome! Let us know if you have any questions. 🙂

[mthierman]

So we had removed the german manual link from the website, but the markdown was never removed. I have fixed the frontmatter/image links to get Astro building a page for it again at the old link.

I think we agreed to remove it, as these things go unmaintained and fall out of date. But I will keep it alive as an archive, same as Surge 1.9 english manual.